Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-10-01
ECONOMY OF LABOR.

The splendor Of September
Boston Pilot
ECONOMY OF LABOR.
Work improperly done is sometimes
a waste of labor, and on the farm there
is often, says the farn-hand of the
Philadelphia Record, too much work
done for the results gained. Nor is
such work mistakenly performed always,
for often it is premeditated and in def
ance of experience and of reason. It
IS well known that all plants require a
Sufficient amount of food, heat and
rmoisture to enable them to reach matu-
.rity and yield to their fullest capacity,
and where the ground is annually de-
voted to crops the great difficulty is to
retain its fertility and secure from it all
that should be derived under the best
possible conditions. Any diminution
deterioration of the plant food in the
soil. must be resupplied in some shape,
and the smaller the amount of plant
food possessed by the farmer, and the
greater the area to be supplied, the
,, ore the difficulty of recuperating the
Col, will he increased. In the face of
+hir act farmers do not always take
into ~, >sideration the propriety of cur
tailino +, e area to be cultivated, by
which, meo rs they would be enabled to
sunnlv a or. ster proportion of plant
food 70 a Unit, y space, and at the same
time save a vast s4ount OF labor: 1t
is not as ecenom, >&a to grow thirty
bushels of wheat on Sgso acres as it is
to produce twenty bus '0'ss on one acre,
for, while in the one ca v Inc farmer
secures an extra ten bush @e 10y reason
of cultivating more land fo ssnaG Pur-
pose, yet he has been col @efsseu 10
perform twice as much work $s.ts 70
spread his manure over double t. satssa
of surface. There should be no uea6
land put under cultivation than can De
properly MANFRED OF fertilized, as it l.
much better to have one acre of strong,
vigorous plants, than two acres of plants |!
improperly provided for, while it re-
quires just as much cultivation, seeding,
harvesting and hauling for the inferior
as for the better ONE. Nor does the 1n-
tluen"e end with a single crop. Land
that has been beautifully fed will be in
better condition for succeeding |
crop, while that which has been over
taxed will gradually lose fertility and |
entail an additional expense every
year. 1t is an old rule that proper
Held culture should be the same for a |
garden spot, which is to use plenty of
of manure on small areas, work the
soil to a fine condition for the seed,
keep down the grass and weeds, and
make every inch of space produce to it's
fullest capacity, instead ofwasting time.
labor and manure over large fields that
tcan not be properly cultivated.
PERCHERON HORSES
If the widespread dissemination and
general popularity of Percheron horses
in America has been good thing for
the agricultural interests of our coun-
try (and who will venture to dispute itp),
then NJ. w. Durham, of Wayne, Ill,
may well be classed as a public bene-
factor; for certainly it will be admitted
by those who are we'll informed upon
the subject that he has done more to
popularize and bring this breed to the
front than any other ten men that can
be named, and we do not know but we
might say than all others combined
who are now or have been in the BUSH
ness. A man of wonderful energy and
activity, original in his methods, bold
even to audacity, he had the foresight
to comprehend a long ways in advance
OF any other importer or breeder the
. magnitude of the demand that would
] spring up in America for these horses;
and with him to conceive was to exc
! cute. The fame of his Oaklawn breed
! ing establishment is worldwide, and he I
lis himself recognized as the high priest
fof the Percheron interest on both sides
of the Atlantic. 1t must also be set
down to Mr.. Dunham's credit that he has
from the beginning of his connection
/, With the business labored necessarily to
Fl, 'ow around it all the safeguards pos
sihle to insure purity of blood, integrity I
If tho pedigree records, and every effort
that has been made on either side of the
Atlantic to that end has found in him
an earnest. active, efficient advocate.
We have ofte. \ thought that other breed
ers and import ais of this country failed
to appreciate the value of Mr.. Dun
HAMS efforts, for everybody who has
been doing an hones,t, legitimate bust (
ness in the same lire has profted by his
liberal, generous and bold advertising,
and the general public has certainly
been the gamer. The Gazette takes
pleasure is pointing to his honorable re-
cord and in recommending everybody
who wants to see the finest establish;
ment of the kind in the world to pay
him visit. A few years ago Mr.. Dun
ham began to pay some attention to the
Coach horses, to the breeding of which
the French government has given so
much encouragement and patronage
for more than century, and this sea-
son Mr.. D. has imported quite largely
OF this stock along with his usual large